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What is Eszopiclone?

Eszopiclone is an hypnotic and nonbenzodiazepine used for the treatment of insomnia.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Difficulty sleeping through night 25 3
Insomnia 17 4
Other 15 0
Anxiety 6 0
Awakening due to pain 3 0
disease-related symptoms 1 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
4 57%
None
3 43%

Most commonly reported side effects

Bad taste in mouth
2 29%
wake up several times during the night
1 14%
early morning wakening
1 14%
Weird dreams
1 14%
Grogginess
1 14%
doesn't always make me tired-opposite effect
1 14%
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe

Dosages

Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Eszopiclone. See all 13 dosages

  1mg as needed 25mg as needed 2mg as needed 3mg as needed daily 2 mg every other week 2 mg weekly 1 mg daily 2 mg daily 3 mg daily 6 mg daily 10 mg daily 200 mg daily
  2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 11 Number of Patients: 11 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 10 Number of Patients: 10 18 Number of Patients: 18 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Eszopiclone (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work
9 60% Did not seem to work: 60%
Expense
4 27% Expense: 27%
Other
3 20% Other: 20%
Doctor's advice
2 13% Doctor's advice: 13%

See all 15 patients who’ve stopped taking Eszopiclone

Currently Taking Eszopiclone

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
2
1
12
10
11

Stopped Taking Eszopiclone

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
1
3
2
4
3
1

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
5 71%
Usually
1 14%
Sometimes
1 14%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
1 14%
A little
2 29%
Not at all
4 57%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
2 29%
< $25
2 29%

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Report created on November 23, 2009.